Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-31
WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR SACRAMENTO.

WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR SACRAMENTO.
The people of Sacramento can, by union
of effort, do so much for this city and the
suburban region that after years steady
effort they will be astonished at the re-
suits.
They should hold up the hands of the
newly-formed citizens committee. If they
do not at all times agree as to the policies
best to be adopted let all disagreement be
referred to and end in that committee,
where it must be assumed that the wisest
Judgment will prevail
Citizens must not go about depreciating
individual efforts to locally improve; they
must receive all suggestions and plans and
hear their advocates patiently. They
must not give black eyes" by declaring
this or that proposition bad this or that
scheme for local improvement impractic-
able; but let the body chosen pass and
decide upon all schemes aud propositions.
They should bend their efforts unitedly
to secure, Just so far as is possible to be
done, the improvement of more streets;
the betterment of sidewalks the replacing
of low and tumble-down fronts on bus
mess streets with substantial and hand
some structures They should foster in all
possible ways the effort to secure greater
uniformity of architecture upon our bus
mess streets and the removal of all that is
unslghtly, that interrupts street view and
gives the city an air of shabbiness.
They should leave no stone unturned to
legally dispossess the city of the Chinese
quarters They should stimulate the plan
to fill the slough, and promote the pending
negotiations to secure the erection by the
railroad company of an exhibition build
ing near the depot for the display of Cali
fornia products.
They should do whatever is wise to be
done, to promote the completion of the
railroad to Placerville and encourage the
running of the morning and evening ac-
commodation passenger trains into the
suburbs.
They should make united endeavor to
invite attention anew to the advantages of
Sacramento, the desirability of the climate,
and the richness of this producing section.
They should be prepared to receive visitors
and to escort them about the city and
suburbs.
The subdivision and marketing of large
land-holdings, everyone wants. 1t is the
unanimous desire; the people are unit
on that proposition; they have right and
reason on their side and they will win.
But while We are doing all that possibly
can be done to secure subdivision and
equal taxation, We should neglect no OPP
portunity TO secure new settlement upon
other lands contiguous to the city, and of
which it is the natural trade center.
We should encourage water companies
to bring water upon uplands about the city
east and north, and thus vastly enhance
the productive capacity of these tracts, and
proportionately' the trade interests of the
city. Just as far as it can be done honestly
and with fair chance Of paying, manu-
featuring should be encouraged.
Our financial issues ought to be as speed
lily and quietly adjusted and got out of the
way as business experience and financial
sagacity can bring about, to the end that
taxation may decline and local values ad-
vance.
The formation of syndicates with goodly
capital to coloniEe lands should be encour-
aged, for all such cannot hut contribute to
the welfare of the city and the benefit of
the investors, since capital will enter into
such schemes only upon assurance of fair
return and the success OF colonization.
If clear water can be brought in for do
mestic purposes without involving the
people in debt, it viii enhance the attrac-
tiveness Of the city and promote manufact-
uring by furnishing cheap motive power.
As soon as it can be done, the disposal of
city sewage should have attention, as also
the drainage system.
While this is long list of tasks, it
ought not to stagger men devoted to their
homes. They are all possible of accom-
plishment within not long period, and it
is good business judgment that they are all
within the capacity of the people without
the assumption Of new burdens that will
not be more than compensated by new